x86/i386: Put aligned stack-canary in percpu shared_aligned section

Pack aligned things together into a special section to minimize
padding holes.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AA035C0.9070202@goop.org>
[ queued up in tip:x86/asm because it depends on this commit:
  x86/i386: Make sure stack-protector segment base is cache aligned ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2009-09-03 14:31:44 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 1ea0d14e48
commit 53f824520b
4 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -66,6 +66,14 @@
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
#define DECLARE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(type, name) \
DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
____cacheline_aligned
#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(type, name) \
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, PER_CPU_ALIGNED_SECTION) \
____cacheline_aligned
/*
* Declaration/definition used for per-CPU variables that must be page aligned.
*/